Curling-iron



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GURLING IRON. No. 433,440. Patented Aug. 5,1890.

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GURLING IRON.

Patented Aug. 5, 1 890.

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A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JAMES H. BEVINGTON, OF FOSTORIA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO CHARLES \V. ROBISON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

CURLlNG-IRON.

srEcrFIcA'rIoN forming part er Letters Patent N0.433,140, dated. August 5, 1890.

Application filed September 25, 188,!)- Serial No. 324,988- (No model.) i v of Fostoria, county of Seneca, State of Ohio,

have invented a new and useful Curling-Iron,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a self-heating curling-tongs for curling the human hair.

The instrument is as small as the ordinary curler, and contains a heater within itself. The handle is filled with ordinary candlewicking, which is to be saturated with alcohol, forming a small lamp. It may be surrounded by enameled cloth or other non-conductor of heat. The curling part to be heated consists of a tube with a clamp held down by a spring to hold the hair. The flame burns in this tube, heating it quickly and keeping it at the right temperature The handle is detachable, allowing the instrument to be packed in a very small space when traveling.

The instrument is perfectly cleanly and entirely self-heating.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure I shows a tube, which serves the twofold purpose of handle and lamp, the same being represented in the act of being charged with alcohol. Fig. II is an axial section of thelamp and the curling-tube separate. Fig. III represents the complete instrument. Fig. IV represents the instrument taken apart and boxed.

The instrument consists of two principal members A and B, in which 1 is a tube open at both ends, and for the greater part of its length of cylindrical form. One extremity of said tube takes the shape of a bell-formed mouth 2, to engage over the nozzle 3 of another tube 4, which may likewise be of cylindrical form, as shown. The bell-mouth tube has draft-ports or air-inlets 5. Secured by spring 6 to the tube 1 is a concavo-convex jaw or clip 7, whose part beyond the spring constitutes a key or manual 8, whose come pressure against the tube 1 by the user operates to open the jaw. The spring 6 is of peculiar shape. Preferably a plate-spring is used, and it is riveted or otherwise fastened to the manual and the tube. No fixed fulcrum is used, the spring operating both as a fulcrum and spring to hold the clip 7 normally against and the manual normally away from the tube 1, as seen in Fig. II. Grasp of the manual 8 may be facilitated by a nonconducting knob or pad 10 of leather or caoutchouc. The butt end of tube 4 is closable by a screw-cap 11. An envelope 12 of enameled cloth or other suitable material may afford a convenient non-conductor at the part of tube 4, which is grasped by the hand. 13 represents a wick. The nozzle 3 and the bellmouth 2 have such relative dimensions that it is merely necessary to press the one into the other to hold them together with sufficient firmness for use.

In operation the tube 4. discharges the func tion of handle and of wick and spirit-holder, while the tube 1 discharges the function of a chimney to the lamp 3 at 11 13, and also does duty as one of the tong-jaws.

To put the instrument in condition for use the cap 11 is removed and the wick 13 of any suitable material-such as cotton yarnis introduced into the tube at and the advance end of it drawn sufficiently through the nozzle or burner 3 for the desired flame. The tube 1 is then sufficiently charged with alcohol or other burning liquid, (see Fig. I,) and is closed by screwing on the cap 11. The lamp being then lit and the two members united, as in Figs. II and III, then the instrument is instantly ready for use. The amount of alcohol supplied to the lamp will customarily be no more than is required for use at the time; but if it is preferred to completely fill the tube 4, evaporation of the spirit may be pre vented by pressing a thimble over the burner. WVire-gauze or foraminous sheet metal may be applied to the draft-inlets 5.

This mode of heating has several notable advantages over that commonly employed. For example, first, no special or separate fire is required; second, the tongs are almost immediately brought to the required temperature; third, the heat, while sufficient and always equable, is never excessive, and hence is never such as to scorch or injure the hair or scalp; fourth, it is absolutely cleanly.-

Having thus described my invention, the

following is what I claim asnew therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A curling-tongs consisting in the combi-- the tube 4 serves as a handle, and the lamp proper, and tube 1 serves as a tong-jaw and as the chimney to said lamp.

2. A self-heating hair-curler consisting of the combination of tube 1, said tube having the perforate or foraminous bell-mouth 2 and the fulcrumed spring clip or jaw 7, and the telescoping tube 4:, having the burner 3 and the screw-cap l1.

V 3. The combination of tube 1, clip or jaw 7, and spring 6, connecting said tube and clip and pressing the same together, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with the hair-curling tongs, the combined fulcrum and spring, arranged and adapted to operate substantially as set forth.

JAMES H. BEVINGTON.

Witnesses: I

V. W. KELLY, D. S. SVVANK. 

